Name change derails projects

 

The Anantapur municipal corporation’s long pending proposal for an underground drainage (UGD) project, estimated to cost Rs368 crore, including seven year maintenance under phase-1 of the JNNURM programme that is still pending with the Centre, for seeking financial clearance, one-and-a-half year ago. Eighty per cent of the cost under the project is to be borne by the Centre while 10 per cent by the State Government and the remaining 10 per cent by the civic body.

 

The detailed project report (DPR) was prepared to meet the needs of the people till the year 2029 with 60 MLD (million litres per a day) with an estimated Rs 368 crore. But delay in sanctioning the project got revised to Rs 390 crore, the official sources said. Though former MP, Ananta Venkatrami Reddy, announced the sanction of UGD for AMC in the last year, the file was pending and further stopped due to elections. “Now, the BJP Government does not want to continue with the name of Jawaharlal Nehru and decided to change it,” sources said.

 

Ananatapur Municipal Corporation authorities have prepared revised estimation and kept ready for intimation from the Centre. “We have revised the estimate to be for a period one year,” an official revealed. Already the AMC is supplying 135 litres of water per capita a day and this was enough to get clearance for the UGD project and the population considered for the AMC area and the surro-unding areas of Papamp-eta, Upparapalli, Kakka-lapalli, B K Samudram and Prasannaipalli. The corporation has been   divided into nine zones.

 

Nearly 34.71 km of interior and main sewer lines with a size of about 150 mm to 1,600 mm diameter will be laid to transport sewage to the treatment plant at Govindapalli village, about 9 km away from AMC office. With the delay in the project, the maruva vanka and nadimi vanka canals were being encroached at various parts.